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**Introduction**The 'IBM Ecosystem' includes thousands of partners who 'Build' on, 'Sell' or 'Service' IBM technologies and platforms.
As a Brand Partner Specialist (Partner), your mission is to engage the right technical, co-marketing, and go-to-market enablement resources, which support your assigned partners to drive prospecting, opportunity identification, and solution co-creation for their clients.You'll grow revenue in your assigned Brand portfolio by increasing partner 'Sell' activities and overall go-to-market sales execution across all IBM territories covered by your partners.
Assigned to 'Sell' partners by brand, you'll influence their sales, technical, and practice leads to increase adoption and co-create on their clients' solutions with IBM brand offerings over competitive alternatives.
**Your Role and Responsibilities**With 1st class skills in developing and cultivating professional relationships, you'll establish trusted advisor status with your assigned 'Sell' partners.
You'll develop partner plans for assigned key partners, which identify strategic growth areas, revenue objectives, enablement goals, and define key milestones to measure success.A natural collaborator and networker, you'll be the lynchpin between partner engagements and IBM's breadth of capabilities (e.G., Hybrid Cloud Build Team, Technical Sellers, Expert Labs, Marketing) as you experientially co-create on demos and prototypes that compel clients to invest in IBM's products, services, and people.We're passionate about success.
If this role is right for you, then your achievements will mean that your career is flourishing, your partners are winning, and your clients are thriving.
To help ensure this win-win-win outcome, a 'day-in-the life' of this role may include, but not be limited to- Engaging local country /market sales teams, Digital Sales teams, Marketing, and technical teams to activate joint go-to-market plans of high value engagements and opportunities.- Activating partner capabilities and capacity by executing skills enablement plans, co-marketing strategies, and leveraging promotions and incentives at the partner firm and seller level.- Collaborating with others to deliver results, meaningfully contributing to immediate and 3rd party teams whilst prioritizing group needs over individual ones.- Negotiating to successfully obtain commitment to solutions, while maintaining integrity and relationships with internal team, external partners, and clients.
**Required Technical and Professional Expertise**- Expertise in building and going to market with technology partner sales offerings that drive strong, two-way, revenue generating collaborations.- A proven, successful history of co-selling with partners in front of their clients.- Demonstrable success of communication and personal relationship development at all levels across colleagues, partners and clients